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2004-10-21
Q: What do you do when your alt-rock darling moment has passed?
A: Pretend it's still going on.
That's the idea behind Pressure Chief, CAKE's fifth release and a logical progression from their 1996 break-out Fashion Nugget. John McCrea is still at his ironic, sarcastic best, Vincent Di Fiore is still dropping some jazzy trumpet, there's the funked up bass, and we revisit the Sacramento band's fixation on cars. New this release are some updated politics and more attention to layering, yet it all still gives way somehow to the heady, familiar sound of their past.
If you liked it then, you'll like it now.
steLLa
EJ Ouellette and Crazy Maggy
Row The Bow 5.0
NUTTIN BUT STRINGZ
Struggle From the Subway to the Charts
FLY MOON ROYALTY
Unfinished Business
OMAR TORREZ BAND
The Beat Outside
The Polyphonic Spree
Together We're Heavy
THE BURNING OF ROME
(Selections from the forthcoming album) With Us
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